Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, from December 2007 through summer 2008 Nick Knight staged a multi-level film and essay project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts. Contributors include Beth Ditto, Gareth Pugh, Naomi Campbell, Steven Klein, Vanessa Friedman and Vivienne Westwood.

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A wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures have answered the brief to express their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts through film. Throughout March and April 2008 return here to see the resulting movies with new additions added each weekday.

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Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, from December 2007 through summer 2008 Nick Knight staged a multi-level film and essay project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts.

From the beginning of December 2007, the first stage of 'Political Fashion Films' invited visitors to SHOWstudio.com to submit a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes that articulated some kind of political point using fashion.

Inkeeping with previous film seasons 'Moving Fashion' and 'Editing Fashion', in February 2008, this invitation was opened up to a wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures, whose Political Fashion Films created to the same brief were broadcast on SHOWstudio.com one film per weekday, alongside essays exploring the themes and issues raised by this provocative subject matter.